 Prepare for class. Now nursing school is not one of those courses where you go there, you hear the lecture, you read the book, you go take an exam or a quiz and you're done. Nursing school is where your instructors will go and discuss certain concepts and topics with you. That means that you have to already come prepared for that, which brings us to step number three. Read, read, read, read and read again. And that basically means because during class your instructor will discuss maybe a case study, a real-world life scenario, you'll be discussing some ethical considerations, some legal stuff. So whatever it is, you have to already prepare for that. If you don't know what's going to be discussed, you won't be able to participate and you won't be able to get some exposure to that critical thinking that we know is so important in nursing. And then this reading here, a lot of times when I go over these steps with students and they tell me, oh I didn't have the chance to read all the chapters or are out of time or are only skimmed certain chapters, then one of the strategies that I usually recommend is to read the assignment before the course. Then when the students comes back and they did well on the next exam and I asked them, what did you do differently? Well, I read the text, I read the information before I went to class because there is, this is the way that our brain works, right? We hear information there, we read it there, we hear it again and that's how we make these connections. Now if you go to class and you haven't even heard about these topics or you vaguely remember from physiology, for example, and you're not going to be able to make those connections and participate in class and those connections are so important to make.